Monthly censusing of reproductive condition of the Asian clam Potamocorbula
amurensis at four sites in northern San Francisco Bay over a 9-yr period
revealed year-to-year differences in local reproductive activity that ...

Here we report for the first time that adult Hapalochlaena lunulata
(Quoy & Gairnard, 1832), which has a vestigial ink sac, is capable of inking. Ink
was released under three different agonistic conditions: female-female ...

Trechus obtusus Erichson (tribe Trechini), native to Europe and North
Africa and introduced to the Pacific coast of North America, is recorded for the
first time from East Maui Island, Hawai'i, based on collections made ...

Marine isotope stage (MIS) 11 may well represent one of the most
significant interglacial highstand events of the past million years. Ocean volume
changes charted from coastal exposures imply partial or complete melting ...

Survey work on the American Samoan island of Aunu'u, a small island
off the eastern end of Tutuila, combined with review of museum collections,
increased the known land snail fauna of the island from 2 to 22 species. Of ...

We report the first observation of mass oviposition by the ocean-skater
Halobates sobrinus White in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. We netted,
in one scoop, 833 insects and a single egg mass with an estimated 70,000 ...

Modem sedimentation in the Navua-Suva Lagoon, southeastern Viti
Levu, Fiji, derives from both allochthonous siliciclastics and autochthonous
marine carbonates. Sediments are characterized by a high insoluble load, ...

Samples of roots and root-zone soil from the threatened species Argyroxiphium
sandwicense subsp. macrocephalum and the endemic species Dubautia
menziesii, both members of the Asteraceae, were collected in a tropical ...

The parasitic copepod Bobkabata kabatabobbus Hogans & Benz is reported
for the first time from the Pacific Ocean and from the darkfin sculpin,
Malacocottus zonurus (Psychrolutidae: Scorpaeniformes). Based on five ...

The girellid fish Girella leonina (Richardson) and the holocentrid
Myripristis murdjan (Forsskal) are reported for the first time for the Hawaiian
Islands from underwater photographs taken at Midway Atoll. Both species ...

Ascidians (invertebrate chordates) are abundant in many ports around
the world. Most of them are nonindigenous species that tolerate wide fluctuations
in temperature, salinity, and even pollution. These sessile ...

Nonindigenous species invasions have caused disruptions of native
communities and detrimental economic impacts to fisheries in many temperate
marine areas. However, comparatively little information exists for tropical ...

The 22 ophichthid eel species of the Hawaiian Islands (including
Johnston and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) are reviewed, and a key to
their identification is provided. New Hawaiian records of Indo-Pacific ...

Two species of Kallymenia from the Hawaiian Islands, one rare, K.
sessilis Okamura, and the other described here for the first time, K. thompsonii, n.
sp., are examined, compared, and contrasted with other similar ...

A comparison of benthic polychaete communities off the Sand Island
Wastewater Outfall was undertaken to recognize organic enrichment indicator
species for Hawaiian waters. Primary-treatment sewage is discharged off ...

Musculista senhousia (Benson in Cantor, 1842) is a soft sediment-dwelling
mussel that has spread anthropogenically from its native Asia to North
America, Australasia, and Europe. This byssal mat-forming species can ...

The wide-ranging Indo-Pacific scorpionfish Scorpaenodes fowleri
(Pietschmann), long placed in the genus Scorpaenopsis (largely because it lacks
palatine teeth), is reclassified in the genus Sebastapistes. It is distinct ...

A species of the hermit crab genus Catapaguroides recently discovered
in a sand-dwelling Halimeda community on the island of Maui, Hawaiian
Islands, prompted a reexamination of the holotype of Catapaguroides setosus
(Edmondson, ...

The reproductive cycle of an introduced population of the brown
anole, Analis sagrei, from O'ahu, Hawai'i, was studied from a histological examination
of monthly samples collected July 1999 to June 2000. Males undergo
a ...